Other than good or bad design sense, I don’t care much about the label as a purchase indicator - except the one labeled “Ecco Domani,” which means “Behold! [It’s] tomorrow,” and which I can’t help but find inauspicious in a drink.
@jsfs True, often the proclamation after samplings of such labeled wines and waking up on the couch with a couple of cats and an early meeting on the schedule: Crap, Ecco Domani!
@Star2236 I’m no wine expert, but I’ve been told by more than one person that what he makes is better than typical “homemade wine,” so I do feel pretty fortunate.
@jitc
That’s really awesome. I’ve always dreamed about owning a vineyard and making wine, dreamed is the keyword lol. What state do you guys live in? Does he make all kinds of wine or just certain ones? Do you ever enter it in competitions?
@Star2236 we grow some table grapes, but mostly primativo, which is kind of a cousin to Zinfandel, so that’s primarily what he makes. He experiments with other fruit wines and meads occasionally, but seems to enjoy beer-making the most. We live in California, and have not done anything competitive; it’s enough work already, I barely got them pruned last year, lol.
@jitc Is your husband from Puglia, by any chance? There are some truly wonderful wines from that Italian region made from the primitivo grape. I’m putting that on my grocery list. (third time I’ve put something on my grocery list today after reading about it here on Meh!)
@ItalianScallion nope, he was born in Iowa, haha. We inherited the vineyard with the purchase of our home, so the primativo was the choice of the former home owner.
Choose wine with animals on the label.
Cats - higher rated
Birds - middle of the pack
Pigs - lower rated
A very detailed and interesting discussion and breakdown here. Check out this site. It is really cool. https://pudding.cool/2025/04/wine-animals/
@accelerator That’s really interesting!
I wonder if they’ve done this with beer - seems like an inordinate number of beer labels have dogs on them, which seems unappealing to me because it makes me think of the smell of a wet dog.
The label tells me the type of wine, its origin, and year bottled. If the label could provide a sample of the wine inside, then it would be the deciding factor.
The label on the back is often more important than the front one. It can usually tell you the type, vintage year, the name of the winery like the front label can, but also can tell you the winery’s location and where the grapes came from–their own vineyard(s), a coop, unknown places in one or more countries in which case the “winery” could be just a bottler, and if the winery brought in “tank car” wine from another source to blend with theirs.
@ItalianScallion The label stories vary widely. Some tell you about harvested on xx/xx at something° brix, from the yyy vineyard planted in zzz, and others will say “wines have been enjoyed by happy families for 3700 years we hope you enjoy this,” which means absolutely nothing.
Labels mean nothing in my decision process. But I do love a cool label.
Don’t like wine, but the labels are cool.
Doesn’t matter. I don’t drink.
@tweezak How do you stay hydrated?
@yakkoTDI I knew I was forgetting something.
@yakkoTDI Nothing wrong with a good old fashioned IV bag.
Other than good or bad design sense, I don’t care much about the label as a purchase indicator - except the one labeled “Ecco Domani,” which means “Behold! [It’s] tomorrow,” and which I can’t help but find inauspicious in a drink.
@jsfs True, often the proclamation after samplings of such labeled wines and waking up on the couch with a couple of cats and an early meeting on the schedule: Crap, Ecco Domani!
@jsfs @stolicat Oh, the good ol’ days of waking up on an unknown couch covered with a few cats.
It’s a factor because I have to read the label to what kind of wine it is.
I just drink the stuff my husband makes off our backyard vineyard.
@jitc
Locally sourced… Gotta love it!
@jitc
Must be nice
@Star2236 I’m no wine expert, but I’ve been told by more than one person that what he makes is better than typical “homemade wine,” so I do feel pretty fortunate.
@jitc does he stomp the grapes himself?
@kittykat9180 he does not. We have a hand-cranked grape crusher. My kids like crushing them, hurrah child labor.
@jitc @kittykat9180
/youtube I love Lucy wine stomping
@jitc
That’s really awesome. I’ve always dreamed about owning a vineyard and making wine, dreamed is the keyword lol. What state do you guys live in? Does he make all kinds of wine or just certain ones? Do you ever enter it in competitions?
POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!
@Star2236 we grow some table grapes, but mostly primativo, which is kind of a cousin to Zinfandel, so that’s primarily what he makes. He experiments with other fruit wines and meads occasionally, but seems to enjoy beer-making the most. We live in California, and have not done anything competitive; it’s enough work already, I barely got them pruned last year, lol.
@jitc
I always forget about the work it takes to care for the grapes. Sounds like a full time job. But you drink for free.
@jitc Is your husband from Puglia, by any chance?
There are some truly wonderful wines from that Italian region made from the primitivo grape. I’m putting that on my grocery list. (third time I’ve put something on my grocery list today after reading about it here on Meh!)
@ItalianScallion nope, he was born in Iowa, haha. We inherited the vineyard with the purchase of our home, so the primativo was the choice of the former home owner.
Choose wine with animals on the label.
Cats - higher rated
Birds - middle of the pack
Pigs - lower rated
A very detailed and interesting discussion and breakdown here. Check out this site. It is really cool. https://pudding.cool/2025/04/wine-animals/
@accelerator That’s really interesting!
I wonder if they’ve done this with beer - seems like an inordinate number of beer labels have dogs on them, which seems unappealing to me because it makes me think of the smell of a wet dog.
@accelerator @Kyeh But the next morning you can have some “hair of the dog” for the hangover.
@accelerator @pmarin Somehow that’s never appealed to me.
The label tells me the type of wine, its origin, and year bottled. If the label could provide a sample of the wine inside, then it would be the deciding factor.
The label on the back is often more important than the front one. It can usually tell you the type, vintage year, the name of the winery like the front label can, but also can tell you the winery’s location and where the grapes came from–their own vineyard(s), a coop, unknown places in one or more countries in which case the “winery” could be just a bottler, and if the winery brought in “tank car” wine from another source to blend with theirs.
@ItalianScallion The label stories vary widely. Some tell you about harvested on xx/xx at something° brix, from the yyy vineyard planted in zzz, and others will say “wines have been enjoyed by happy families for 3700 years we hope you enjoy this,” which means absolutely nothing.